What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Dec 30, 2019-Jan 5, 2020

In June of 2019, Iranian air defense forces shot down a U.S. Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft sparking a serious level of confrontation between Tehran and Washington in the recent round of tensions. The shootdown occurred in THIS location.

THIS three-time ambassador — who described the State Department as “attacked and hollowed out from within,” in prepared remarks at a closed-door Congressional hearing — has come into the spotlight in 2019 in the midst of the ongoing whistleblower investigation involving Ukraine.

In a rare address to the US Congress marking the 70th anniversary of THIS international organization, THIS organization’s head warned, “We do not want a new arms race. We do not want a new Cold War. But we must not be naïve.”

In 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit THIS country, despite the sometimes deep tensions between the two nations.

Over the summer, the Trump administration signed an agreement with the Guatemalan government to do THIS, in an effort to curb the wave of asylum seekers coming into the U.S. While both governments have confirmed the agreement, Guatemala’s highest court had previously ruled that such an agreement could not be signed by the country’s president.

In one of several violations of the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from which President Trump withdrew the United States, Iran announced that it did THIS in the fall, raising the stakes for the European countries trying to prevent the deal’s collapse.